I dont believe BeOS is dead, but alot of BeOS users are looking at or are atleast interested in AmigaOS becaue it looks like it could be their new platform.
The thing is i believe from what ive read and from my own feelings that Be had several problems that Amiga Inc doesnt.
1) Hardware manufactorers. We have many of these and Be hardly new anyone. That is, they found it hard to get their system on any good hardware righ tout of the box. Except the BeBox of course.
2) Software, BeOS started with no software. We already have a lot of software. You all know that.
3) The Name. Be had to create a name for its self, and if did that well within the geek community. However, Amiga has a name of many many people. Including some of which are pretty old and have joined the PC market. However, once marketing starts up and Amiga Inc isin full swing, they will undoubtly become interested and possibly buy one.
So in other words, Amiga Inc isnt starting from scrath. We have the community, we have the software, we have the hardware and we have an execlent OS capable of running as fast of faster then BeOS on the same resources. Amiga Inc has a lot of backing for their project, and with their second income stream (AmigaDE), this will only become stronger with more money put into parterships and more products.
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